Wendell Maxey of Beyond The Beat interviews music producer Kevin Moyer, who explains what it was like working with Portland Trail Blazers center Greg Oden on a song for his new record, "Live From Nowhere Near You: Volume Two." ------------------------ Greg and I spent about an hour, maybe an hour and a half. He was still in work out sweats and it was during the season so I didn’t want to waste too much time. He said one of his favorite places to eat was Buffalo Wild Wings and I emphatically told him that he needed to check out Fire On The Mountain instead (don’t know if he ever did). We talked about Rihanna a bit and laughed about how the track I wanted him to sing was sounding a bit like Carlos Santana meets "Take These Broken Wings" by Mister Mister. There was a lot of me telling him that everything sounded really good and him looking at me and not believing a word of it. At one point he began spelling his name to the beat and I am half tempted to make a loop of it over a beat and give it to him as a ring tone. I don’t know what his response was to hearing the final version as I had to email it to him due to the basketball season schedule… but he messaged me saying it was "cool". ------------------------ Moyer also compares Oden's vocals to those of Barry White. ------------------------ I was making the comparison of Barry White with his vocals too - definitely. I can only imagine how funny it sounded to hear all the grunts and "ooohs and ahhhs" coming from the room. I don’t think Greg knew there was an office just beyond the wall with about 5-6 people working. After we were done and he walked out and saw them, he looked surprised and shot me a look laughing at himself a bit. ------------------------ Listen to the song, "O-No-You-Oden", here. Order the album here. Maxey reports that proceeds will go to support homelessness and street youth programs.